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Ibn Ezra on Exodus 28:14/אבן עזרא על שמות כ״ח:י״ד
אומלת שרשרות. כפול העי"ן, ואם לא יכפלוהו שוה, הוא שרשת גבלת (פ' כב), ולפרש בלשון הקדש מלת גבלות, ומלות רבות, במעשה החשן, גם מלת חשן קשה:
1CHAINS. The middle root letter has been doubled in sharsherot (chains).134 is shin, resh, shin. However, the resh was doubled and a new quadriliteral root, shin, resh, shin, resh, formed. The latter is the root of sharsherot. However, the word has the same meaning when the middle root letter is not doubled. Compare, sharshot135 is shin, resh, shin. gavlut (plaited chains) (v. 22). It is very difficult to explain the meaning of gavlut (plaited) in Hebrew.136, and some of the other terms used by Scripture in relation to the choshen are not Hebrew words. We consequently do not know their meaning. The same applies to many of the words employed by Scripture that refer to the making of the breastplate as well as to the word choshen (breastplate) itself.